We have developed an exciting program that will engage, excite and enlighten participants. In addition to national and international keynotes speakers we are engaging local experts to guide us through the process of creating memorable culinary experience. A full program will be released in due course.
Bill Gammage is an adjunct professor in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University (ANU). He grew up in Wagga (NSW), and was an ANU undergraduate and postgraduate before teaching history at the Universities of Papua New Guinea and Adelaide. He wrote The Broken Years on Australian soldiers in the Great War(1974), Narrandera Shire (1986), The Sky Travellers on the 1938-39 Hagen-Sepik Patrol in New Guinea (1998), and The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia (2011).
Danny McCubbin has worked for Jamie Oliver for nearly 10 years, 4 of them as his PA. In that time he has become an ambassador for Jamie’s work,spreading Jamie’s word about cooking and eating good food. Danny worked very closely with Jamie on all of his campaigns – The Fifteen Foundation, School Dinners and Ministry of Food both in the UK and the USA. Danny works as Jamie’s Community and Social Media Editor and he is also a Jamie Oliver Foundation Ambassador working closely with young people from Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen.
John Stanley, is always at the forefront of change in the farm retail and marketing sector around the world. Considered by many to be the world's leading farm marketing consultant due to the sizeable economic returns he helps his clients achieve, he has been described by his clients as "The Retail Guru". Internationally one of the fastest growing activities is farmers becoming involved in "Food Tourism". Farmers are developing farmers markets and on site tourist attractions as a major profit generating activity. The leaders in this form of retailing and marketing are based in the USA, Canada and the UK and John's presentation will take the winning formulae already in existence and place them in a West Australian situation and identify the challenges and opportunities for farmers and tourism developments. John will look at how WA farmers can promote their values to tourists and grow the market either on the farm or as a region.
Mark Olive, aka ‘The Black Olive’, has been a chef for over 25 years and has become a well know Australian celebrity with his charismatic style and creative approach to food, starring in his own television series ‘The Outback Cafe’ and a host of cooking, lifestyle and travel shows nationally and globally. Mark’s passion for fusing native food and culture with contemporary lifestyle cooking has led to a huge international profile, and the creation of Black Olive catering, an indigenous catering company in North Melbourne, Victoria.
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